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REVELATION SERIES - Week 11 - October 28 2026 · Chapter and First- Bible Teaching Ministry of Fort Smith's First Baptist Church

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to uh open this in a word of prayer and then uh we'll get started.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_01: So glad you all are here.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: So Father, thanks again for this evening and um for what we're gonna study tonight.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: We thank you so much for your word and that we are we live in a time where we even have it.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: We have the full counsel of God.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: And uh these these guys we look at, and the apostles and John, they didn't have the they didn't have it all, but we do, and we have so much more.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: And so we just thank you for Stephen's teaching, and we thank you for this time.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh open our eyes and give us the understanding we need, and we just thank you for it.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: And thank you so much for the forgiveness of sin.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: That because of Christ we are credited with his righteousness, and before before you we stand righteous, not because of anything we've done, but because of what he has given us, and we're so thankful.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: So we thank you again in Christ's name.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, David has something he wouldn't need to address.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_05: I want to make a correction from last week, because if I ever give you a wrong verse, I want to make sure we get it right.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_05: So the question was last week about the groups being raptured, and and we were talking about each group would be raptured at their at their group, the church the church would be raptured together, and then the Old Testament saints would be raptured at the end of the tribulation period, but I gave you the wrong verse.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_05: It's not it's not Daniel 12, 3 and 4, as I stated, it's Daniel 12, 1 and 2.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_05: So when we were doing recordings, I gotta go on the record and make sure that we get things corrected, alright?
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's kind of a it's kind of a scary thing when you have these recordings because now whatever you say is I mean, my sister in Australia can listen to me, you know.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: So it's out there.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: So you you want to make sure it's right.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_03: And you want to go back and listen to that, do you just go to the church website?
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you go to the church website and you go to it's called the buzz.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's called it's on media.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's on the media.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: You go to media, and and I think it's called the buzz.
• 2:31
  unknown: The buzz.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it's got all the sermons and all the, but it has these Wednesday night things because I, you know, I I was driving back from where I was Wednesday, and I listened to David, you know, last week.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_05: He made he made a lot of corrections.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you have your sheet.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to, I put on the back, on the back of your sheet, I created a summary.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully this helps you.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, this pulls together four, chapter four, a, b, and c.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh if you remember, it dealt with the four kingdoms, and it's it talks about Daniel, and you notice there you've got four lesson four A, and it talks about the first statue.
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  SPEAKER_01: Four B talks about the beasts, and then uh four C is what David talked about last week.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that's kind of a summary.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: I like to do these because that we have so much information, and having these little summaries after we get to a certain point is really good to remind you.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is also actually, it's it's it's got it right up here, the same kind of thing.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we had the statue across the top, and we had the beasts across the bottom, and remember the feet, and remember the last beast.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: He couldn't even recognize it, so it didn't even look like any of the others.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: And remember the main thing about the last beast?
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: What was the main thing about the eleventh horn?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the ten.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then we talked about the little eleventh horn that's gonna come up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so this this hopefully uh and then also this is a great thing because it it talks, and I didn't realize this, and we're gonna look at this in more detail uh tonight, is this idea of this land.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: If you get you should have got one thing out of this lesson, this one we just listened to, land is a big deal to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I mean remember the first part we looked at was this uh, you know how they had to they had the land and they worked it set six years and then they were supposed to let it rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eat the land was to have it Sabbath, and they didn't do that, and that's why they got captured and taken away to Babylon and had to stay there for ten years, because uh the land was gonna get its rest back, and they were out of the land, okay?
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's also the land is a big deal uh for the the Abrahamic covenant, and we're gonna hopefully you got that out of this lesson.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Abrahamic covenant, that was a covenant where God gave him the land, and you're gonna have it you know forever.
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  SPEAKER_05: Uh Mose go ahead.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_05: The thing is, you know, when you say that, that Israel signed on for this.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_05: It wasn't that God said that's the way it is.
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  SPEAKER_05: He went through it and said, Are you gonna what do you guys agree to this?
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  SPEAKER_05: And they did.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: So so they made the deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna we're gonna summarize that at the end of the lesson.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now I don't know if you've listened to Stephen, but he summarized these land deal things at the end here.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I didn't realize, I mean, I don't realize.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now it's linked.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now it pulls, it really what it does is it pulls this whole thing here with this this tribulation period.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the land is what, the land is what makes this tribulation period uh so important.
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  SPEAKER_01: This period here, this this period from when the church is gone to when he comes back, it's all about it's all about the land and the the covenants that he's given with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's isn't it interesting today when you turn the news on?
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel is there, in kind of in their land.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what's what's the what's the what's it all about?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's all about the Palestinians and the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all about the land, and and they they should have the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's this is exactly what we're seeing.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all focused on the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: And God's gonna take care of this.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, let's go on.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Interesting, my aunt showed me years ago the terraces, as they were, you know, doing uh their gardening.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: My grandfather, she said he always let the land rest on the seventh year.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, that's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we were in Nebraska, the Greek Orthodox gentleman said, your garden's gonna be beautiful, the land's rested seven years, and it was the best garden ever.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's great.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, this this is kind of this is kind of what uh David talked about last week.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's basically about this, he talked about the church being raptured, and the whole church was there, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And he and that's talked about by the uh the all the seven spirits all at the same place at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh the difference between the uh the coming of the Lord and the return of the Lord, or the day of the Lord, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it he mentioned more about the day of the Lord, but the the coming of the Lord is totally different than the return of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: The coming of the Lord is what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is for who?
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  SPEAKER_01: The church.
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  SPEAKER_01: And where do they meet?
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  unknown: In the air.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: In the air.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: The return of the Lord, he actually does what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's he's right on the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's back on the land again.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: And and that's that rock, remember in the statues?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's that rock coming down and smashing the feet.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the return.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we talked about the, I've got it on that front part there, the Leviticus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um we're in this hinge, we're in this hinge part here before we actually get into tribulation.
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  SPEAKER_01: You we're still not gonna get into the actual beginning of it and all of this, but we're we're right on the we're right on the precipice.
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  SPEAKER_01: After today, next week, we'll be jumping right into things starting to happen.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's look here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's go to Revelation 5, and we'll we'll go through this.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, actually, we want to finish with this part here.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: It says, out of the throne came flashes.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a recap of a little bit of a recap of last week, but we need to talk about these four creatures.
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  SPEAKER_01: Out of the throne came flashes of lightning and sounds of peals of thunder, and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit is there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And before the throne, there was something like a sea of glass, like Cristo, and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures, full of eyes in the front and behind.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first creature, so you got four different creatures.
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  SPEAKER_01: The first one was a lion, was like a lion.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't say it was a lion.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember that, it's like a lion.
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  SPEAKER_01: The second creature, like a calf.
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  SPEAKER_01: The third creature had a face like that of a man.
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  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't a man, but it was like a man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the fourth creature was like that of a flying eagle.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's these four creatures.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings.
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  SPEAKER_01: So each of these four creatures now has six wings flying out the back of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, you could copy and paste this and put it in AI and see what you get.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and people do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I I mean, I've had things pass through my, you know, and these all these beautiful unbelievable things, you know, but it's not even going to come close to really what it's what they're really like.
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  SPEAKER_01: The four living creatures, each one of them, six wings and full of eyes around them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And within.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's just bizarre, isn't it?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: And day and night they do not cease to say, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, did any did anybody get anything from studying?
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  SPEAKER_01: What else did you learn about?
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  SPEAKER_01: He said a lot of other things about these creatures.
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  SPEAKER_01: Does anybody remember?
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  SPEAKER_07: Guardians of God's glory.
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  SPEAKER_09: There you go right here.
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  SPEAKER_09: Three orders of angels.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_05: He and he didn't say this, but there's been some other theologians that say these are the four, these are the picture of the gospel, these four creatures.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_05: The first one, the lion, would be Matthew.
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  SPEAKER_05: What's he called in Matthew?
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  SPEAKER_05: The lion of Judah.
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  SPEAKER_05: In Mark, he's a suffering servant.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_05: He gives the has the most of any of his uh miracles.
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  SPEAKER_05: He's a he's a servant, like a like a cat, like an ox.
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  SPEAKER_05: The third one, Luke, talks about he's a son of man.
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  SPEAKER_05: And the fourth one, the eagle, is John depicting him as, you know, Christ is the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_05: I mean, he's the deity.
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  SPEAKER_05: So it's that's an interesting issue.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did anybody, I don't know, I may have misheard this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did anybody hear Stephen say that the angle that he was looking at, these creatures, like he was standing at a certain angle and he saw the face on this one, he saw the eagle on this one, and he saw the same creatures as I.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the s but each creature actually had all four of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did anybody else hear that?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I I I didn't.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_03: You know, and on the eyes, the eyes of the Lord are ever.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, everywhere.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_05: I think it's very important when he talks about they protect the glory of the Lord, because we're gonna get in, we're going to get into that next week.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: And that's so important to God is protecting his glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let's let's look here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Umtice the four creatures, the lion, the calf, the man, the eagle.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the cherubim, the highest class of angel guardians of God's glory, like you mentioned.
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  SPEAKER_01: When was their last appearance on earth, these four?
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  SPEAKER_01: When the two paper God moved out of the tabernacle of the 705.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and when was that?
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  SPEAKER_01: 605 B.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what what was happening?
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Nebuchadnezzar.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: Nebuchadnezzar.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that interesting?
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  SPEAKER_01: And we would we that's what started the whole time of the Gentiles.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the the Shekinah glory was escorted out.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: And which gate did he go out?
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: The East Gate.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's you want to know about that?
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's in Ezekiel.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: I've got it listed in there.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: And you go and you read that in Ezekiel, and Stephen has a great study on Ezekiel, and it's all about this.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is when he left, and he's and he hasn't been back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, what we're studying here, this is a preamble.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a guess what's gonna happen?
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  unknown: He's bringing it back.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's bringing it back.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: And and guess where he's gonna come back?
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  SPEAKER_01: The East Gate.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: What does it look like right now?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's already bricked up, and what's right in front of it?
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: A cemetery.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: So the the return of the Lord is gonna isn't it neat how God is so methodical?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's so uh organized.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not just this chaotic, sporadic, whatever.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and it's the same thing as we study all of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's organized, it's plain, it's not just random and chaos.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's precise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Precise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, very precise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh the last time that God dwelt with Israel on earth, uh, Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: Seeing cherubim again here uh is still besides God's throne, um, who was and who is and who is to come.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so this is exactly what's going to happen when he comes comes back.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and he's seeing this.
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  SPEAKER_01: John is seeing this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now let's look at what John saw.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now let now we'll go down into the next section.
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  SPEAKER_01: I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals, and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals?
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  SPEAKER_01: And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I began to weep greatly, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one of the elders, how many were there?
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  SPEAKER_01: Twenty-four.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of those guys, probably Peter, said to me, Stop weeping.
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  SPEAKER_01: Behold, the lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I saw between the throne with the four living creatures and the elders a lamb standing as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, uh sent out into all the earth.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Now let me let me let's let's look at one through five first and then we'll go on to the next one.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what do we know about this scroll from your study?
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  SPEAKER_01: From reading, or what do we know about this scroll?
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_07: It's the uh title deed to planet Earth.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, is it?
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: He has a little different spin on that.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, it's a title deed.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: How do we know it's a land deed?
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: This is this was what was I this is if you don't really, this is what's neat about Stephen.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's he goes in and he, how do we know it's a land deed?
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  SPEAKER_01: Written on both sides, because it says it was written on both sides.
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  SPEAKER_01: And back in that day, land deeds were written on both sides.
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  SPEAKER_01: What all the details were on the inside.
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  SPEAKER_01: What was on the outside?
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  SPEAKER_01: A summary.
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  SPEAKER_01: A summary of what's on the inside.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was a land deed.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we know it's a land deed, all right?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Now, you you we bought out it's a land deed to and it this was made by the father.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was a deed that was put in place by the father, and it was but uh but what land?
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  SPEAKER_01: The land of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_06: Now you mentioned the earth because sin is throughout the earth, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_09: He's giving the land over to the Gentiles.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Remember, in the context of everything we're talking about, and in the context of everything we've talked about in Leviticus and the Sabbath, okay, and the whole 40, 490, remember when they disobeyed God, he said, I'm gonna come and I'm gonna, what were the require what were the what were the three things?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: What they were gonna, they would lose Jerusalem, the Gentiles would trample Jerusalem, they would be scattered out of the land, and they would be persecuted and killed, right?
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: And that they would be dominated by a Gentile power.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, when did that occur?
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: When did you think that land deed occurred?
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: 605.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: 605.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now that's different.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: The earth or is it the Israel's land, the promise to Abraham?
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: Now, in the context of everything we're talking about, we're talking about the Israel's land.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you gotta assume that it's Israel's, it's the title deed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: What else?
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: How many seals?
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: Why seven?
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 100%.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: There's no sneaking, you know, and the these seals are broken gradually over time, and they're gonna be broken over this seven-year period.
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  SPEAKER_01: Each seal is gonna be broken of this land deed and what's written in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Breaking the seals ends the agreement.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now what is what was the agreement?
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: What's the agreement being broken?
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: What have we been studying?
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: What have we been studying with these statues?
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Age of the Gentiles.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: Remember he said, if you don't do this, your land is gonna be given to the Gentiles.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's the land deed.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's theirs.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: The Gentiles.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: Now how when's that gonna be broken?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: When is that that deed, that agreement gonna be broken?
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: You read it.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: When so it's gonna be broken when somebody opens the book.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: We just read that.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Who's gonna open the book?
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's pretty clear.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: And and this is why, remember, Stephen, uh, I mean, uh John weeps because there's nobody worthy.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: Who is worthy to break the seals and end that deed?
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Who's the one who's worthy to open that book and end that deed?
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: And and it tells you that Jesus is the one.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: Because this is a land deed on earth with Gentile nations, man, men.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and it's God's land.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: And there's only one person who can who was a man and is God.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's why Jesus is the only one, because he's the man God.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: I I thought that was pretty interesting.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't really get that until I listened to that a little more.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like, why couldn't the father just sitting on the throne?
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: Why couldn't he just open it?
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_08: He was party up to the deed.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was party to the deed.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: And back in that time, if you were party to the deed, you couldn't open the deed.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody else has to open it.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: And then we get a new deed.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: We have a new one that gets set up.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: The judge or the magistrate has to open it.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the judge or the magistrate.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: That is Christ.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's the.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: Remember what I told you at the beginning?
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's all about the land.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's all about the land.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't belong to the Palestinians.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's a big deal.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: You see, the world's in chaos right now because it's all about the land.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's running around with Palestinian flags, burning Paris down, and you and there's Palestinian flags all around Paris and Belgium and wherever you want to look.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: This is a land deal.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: This is where we're heading, guys.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's unbelievable.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: The land deed for that land, Israel's, in 605, when we talked about that.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: No, look at this.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: No one in heaven, what does it say?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: No one in heaven or earth or under the earth was found worthy to break the seals except the lamb.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now let's look at 6 through 7 and we'll go on.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I saw between the throne with the four living creatures and the elders a lamb standing as if slain.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: Did anybody get pick out what Stephen said about that?
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: You got this lamb, but it looks like he is slain, but he's not slain.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_08: He said it was the interpretation.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what was the interpretation?
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: What's what are you supposed to do?
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: How are you supposed to interpret that?
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: Resurrected.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, remember Jesus is still gonna have the mark.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: He looks like he was slain, but now he's standing.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's resurrected.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's the resurrected Christ.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: But he looks like he was slain, right?
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: Remember Thomas?
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't believe.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, come here.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: Did he look like he'd been slain?
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he still had all the wounds.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: Pretty neat.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: Having seven horns and seven eyes.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: What are those?
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: How do you know that?
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: This is important.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: You know, people go, well, that's this and this is that, and those seven horns are whatever, you know, but it tells you what it is.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's the Holy Spirit.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: So the Holy Spirit, remember, the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the earth when?
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: The rapture.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: The rapture.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: Now what's happening?
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Sending back out.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: He's getting ready to go back.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit is getting ready to go back.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: Horns represents.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: What did the horns represent when we saw the ten horns and the little eleventh horn?
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: Kingdoms or ruling or you know, control.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's talking about the Holy Spirit going back to control what's going on down there.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: And what is what is uh what's the other characteristic?
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: The eyes.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: Eyes.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: All seeing.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: The all-seeing, all knowing.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and so isn't that great?
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: Let me see.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: Holding uh, where am I seven?
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: Seven.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: And he came and took the book out of there.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures, uh, twenty-four elders, fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: And they sang a new song.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: Worthy are you to take the book and to break its seals, for you were slain and purchased for for God with your blood, men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: You have made them to be a kingdom of priests and priests to our God, and they will reign upon the earth.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: Then I looked and heard of the the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them was myriads and myriads and thousands and thousands.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Let me see where we go.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: Saying, I'm going to finish it up, saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: 513, and every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things in them I heard saying, To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: And the four living creatures kept saying, Amen, and the elders fell down and worshipped.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: So let's look at this on your sheet here.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: So he's worthy to break the seals.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Now let's look at the lamb who overcame and the slain.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: We already talked about that, right?
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go on to worshiping.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: The four creatures in the 24 elders fall down with harps and bowls of incense.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: What did Stephen say about the bowls of incense?
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_07: Prayers of the saints of the saints, right?
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: Who who whose prayers?
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: The saints.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: Which saints?
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_07: The ones on the 24.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_07: That's a good one.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's a good one.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_09: Alders on the scroll.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: Tribulation starts.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_07: God stores up the prayer.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, great.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_07: And offer them up.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: Over the years.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: God stores up the prayers.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: So would you if you're not a prayer, you'll have mentioned, you don't have mentioned the bowl.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's not, I'm not saying that to, you know, to make you feel guilty and bad.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just saying when you pray to the Lord about the condition of the world and the earth and people and all this, you know, and how great you are, He He stores that.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: He fills this bowl up.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: You want to help fill the bowl?
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_04: Pray.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's what that I mean, doesn't it add a little more meaning to your prayers to think that that bowl's gonna be emptied and the prayers of the saints is like an incense is that's gonna come out of pun?
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_05: Puts a little more meaning to that song we sing, let incense arise.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um really neat.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, they sing a new song, so it's okay.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: Stephen, I thought it was great.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: What's Stephen say?
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: Is it okay to sing new songs in church?
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_07: As long as they're R and B.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're gonna sing a new song.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get to heaven go, where did that come from?
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I never heard that before.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's not right.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm just kidding.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, so they're gonna sing a new song.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: Christ is worthy because he purchased people from every tribe, tongue, and nation with his blood, making them a kingdom and priests who will reign on earth.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: Now I want to mention two things here.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna set up a kingdom.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Where's that kingdom gonna be?
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: Right here, back on earth.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we I it's not in the clouds.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a kingdom that's sitting in the clouds, and we're all gonna float around and we're gonna be do you realize do you realize you're gonna spend a thousand years with a resurrected body, a body, walking, swimming, surfing, eating.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, all the things that Jesus did when he was resurrected.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: He wasn't surfing.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they didn't have surfboards back then, but but yeah, it's this is guys, I think we we don't realize it's a lot, not unlock unlike what we do now.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's just we're gonna be have perfect bodies, and it's a kingdom.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a kingdom, a place.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: And guess what?
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: He most times you what happens when you like like the United States was already here, and I came from New Zealand, and I had to go through a process to become a citizen.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a kingdom coming on the land.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: What's the process you have to go through to become a citizen of that kingdom?
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_07: Washington believes.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you have to believe.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_01: But what's interesting is the kingdom's not even here yet.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: So God does it, he's doing it backwards.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's actually getting the citizens first.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: All the citizens are being accumulated first.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: Starting how many years ago?
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: 2,000 years ago, Pentecost.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so all the citizens have been gathering up.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: They're not in the kingdom yet.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: And then when the kingdom comes on earth, we all walk in together.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: All that's what David.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: We're coming down on horses.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: But we all come in together.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what he's preparing, okay?
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: So that's one.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: And then the other one he mentions there's priests.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: It says, You have made them, that's us, uh, to be a kingdom and priests.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now Stephen talked about this.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: Not only are you a saint, you're also a what?
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: A priest.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: And what does a priest do?
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_01: Sit in a box and listen to people.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just I'm I'm joking.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, uh, Stephen is Catholic.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: He talks about this stuff all the time, and he came out of the Catholic faith.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_01: But what is a priest?
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: What does a priest do?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's a mediator, a go-between.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Christ is our high priest, he's our mediator.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're supposed to be priests.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: Well, who are we priests to?
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_07: Unsaved.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: The lost.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: The world.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: You're already there.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: We are the mediator.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: God is.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: Do you realize what it means to be a priest?
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of those lost people you know, a lot of those people out there that you know, they have not you're the you're the you're when you talk to them and say, hey, I'm gonna pray for you, or I'm gonna, you know, you help them, you do things for them, and you encourage them, you come alongside them, you're you you you're a media, you, you're working, you're that mediator.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's what it means to be a priest.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's not, I uh put my robe on and walk around and got my sash and I got my hat on.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and I'm a priest, and you all walk around, and when I come in the room, you all but I want to say sharing your testimony.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_03: Draw people in so they understand uh the life that you've come from and what Christ can do in your life.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's you know yes, that's exactly it.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_01: That that that's what we are, and that's what he's expecting us to do, and we are priests.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: We're those mediators to all those people you rub shoulders with every day.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's a great ministry.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: Then you can participate in it or you can not.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't mean you're lost.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_01: You're still saved, you're still gonna be in the kingdom.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: But that's what he that's what our purpose is now.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_09: The bad thing is uh about it is we're in our glorified bodies.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's exactly right, yeah.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_09: So we don't have all the stuff that we have to deal with now.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be a good deal.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: It says myriads of angels.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know what myriads means?
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: Myriads.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: What's it what's myriads?
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's a bunch.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: It does say myriads and myriads and thousands and thousands.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: But what is we we d it's not like we walk around today and go, oh, I've got myriads of money.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: Now we say I got thousands of dollars, you know, but we don't say myriads of money.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's more than a myriad in that particular time was the largest number they could they could express.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, like what's out, what's the biggest number that we express?
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_01: Trillion.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: Trillion, a gazillion, or I don't know what it is.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a billion anymore.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's pocket change.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: But but anyway, myriads was that their number in that day where it was the largest number they ever knew.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_01: I thought that was pretty interesting.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't say that that lesson, but I I blend that from other ones.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: Umtice.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: What's every creature do?
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: Now it it g it lists them, right?
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_01: It says every creature, and then it gives a list.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_01: What's the list?
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_06: I kind of think of the uh dolphins.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_06: And they have beautiful voices, so here they're you know, and we're gonna have a beautiful voice.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_06: Some of us gonna have that now.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: I I just saw, look at this.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh where is it?
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's here, 13.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: Every created thing, every created thing, which is in heaven, and on the earth.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: So now you're talking about all the beings that are already in heaven, and then you got all the beings that are alive on earth at this particular time, and it says under the earth.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_01: Now what is that?
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_07: Unbelievers.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_07: It could be the one that's unbelievers.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_01: Hell.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_01: Stephen mentioned this.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: He said, uh he said, do you realize beneath your feet is hell?
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_08: He actually said if you drill far enough, you would you would reach it.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_01: The drill butt will melt.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, under the earth, and there's a they're down there, they just haven't been released yet.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_01: But anything created.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: And on the sea, anything in the sea, and all things in them, everything in the sea, like you mentioned about the dolphins and the fish.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_01: Now, what are they gonna do?
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_07: That's a gorgeous same, same praise.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they it's isn't it unbelievable?
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_01: To him who sits on the throne in the land be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_02: Is that read just like two days ago that they just discovered that gorillas sing when they're eating their meals, and it's kind of like Thanksgiving songs.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_02: And they all have unique ones.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_02: I thought that when you were talking about every day singing, I thought about they're just uh gorillas were singing when they're eating.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_01: Now, uh donkeys can't talk, can they?
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, donkeys can donkeys.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're we're we're animals talking before the fall.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_01: Now I I how is it now how is it that, you know, you've heard that word, you've heard that verse where it says, Every knee shall bow and confess that Jesus is Lord.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_01: Well, well, you know where that comes from.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_01: That actually comes from later on in chapters 21 and where the great white throne judgment and every knee shall bow.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's our that's after the thousand years and after all.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: What is this?
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_01: When is this occurring?
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_01: Where everything is bowing down and worshiping.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_01: This is way, way before that time.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_07: He's still opening the same time.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: So if they're if if the dead and those in hell are recognizing that he's he's are they believers?
• 41:01
  unknown: No.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: Why not?
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_01: They're just yeah, they're just too late.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, what's the difference?
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: You get this is important.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they they believe now, right?
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's too late.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: Why is it too late?
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_04: That's head knowledge.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_01: Why is it too late?
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's a critical thing.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_01: This is a you how you answer this is critical.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_01: What do you have to have?
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: Faith.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: Without faith, it is impossible to please God.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_01: What is faith?
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, believing without you got it.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_03: And like the song, Is Thy Heart Right with God?
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I think our day broke the death.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_01: See, they're seeing now.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: These guys are seeing now.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: And so they don't have to have faith.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_01: Now I'm gonna give you a little tidbit here.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_01: When we go into the tribul when we go into the millennium, thousand-year reign, we're gonna be resurrected.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna have resurrected bodies, but there's also gonna be who else goes into the tribulation?
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_07: The living on earth.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_01: The living on earth that are believers.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_01: The living on earth will go into the tr go into the millennium also, just like you and I are living now.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_01: They'll still have sin.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_01: They want to make it through the tribulation.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_01: Gentile that are believers.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_01: So get this.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_01: They've still got to believe.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_01: What do you have to?
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_02: They're not gonna have the Holy Spirit.
• 42:38
  unknown: Oh, the Holy Spirit.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm lost.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_01: The f the believing is still the same.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_01: You've got to have what?
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_01: Faith.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: Faith is believing in something that you haven't seen.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, if Jesus is running around everywhere, that needs you to have faith.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_04: So what are you saying?
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna tell you.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna tell you.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um I want you to think about that.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_01: And if you study Ezekiel, if you do day, if you do a study on Ezekiel, he'll tell you where Jesus is that whole time.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's really, it's really mind-blowing.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna tell you.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna leave it for you to literally.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_05: You you better talk a little bit more.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_05: You got people hanging out too much.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_05: Not gonna, I'm not gonna do it.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_05: Well, hey, he won't be here next week, and I'll I'll I'll spill the beat.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty neat.
• 43:41
  unknown: He wants us to do a little research, so that's not bad.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: So he now opens the seals, and uh he starts to open the seals, and that's what we're gonna get to next week.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_01: Now I've got the last thing here to mention about why the land is important, and he kind of summarizes this right at the end here.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then it talks about the two it talks about the whole importance of why this seven-year tribulation is what it's all about.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: And it's also what David mentioned at the beginning.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: That Abraham's covenant, you remember Abraham's covenant?
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's actually God's covenant.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's actually God's covenant.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: We call it Abraham's covenant.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: So what was the covenant God made with Abraham?
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: Make you a nation, and I'm gonna give you a land.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_01: A land.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_01: And then how did they ratify that covenant?
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_07: God walked.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he you what did God do to Abraham?
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_01: Same thing he did with Eve.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_01: He put him to the deep sleep.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: He he put them asleep.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_01: He took all those animals and he cut them in half.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_01: He laid them all out.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then he walked through.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_01: And Abraham's over here asleep.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_01: So he made the covenant.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_01: It has nothing to do with Abraham.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_05: And that's where a big disruption is with replacement theology right now.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_05: And a lot of people don't understand how big that was because when God walked through those, through those sacrifices, through that blood, he was saying, if I break this covenant, I die.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_08: It was unconditional.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_08: It was an unconditional process.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_01: It didn't matter what Abraham did, it didn't matter what his people did, the land is going to be this.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we're looking at.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is what we're looking at with this whole deal.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: The land is there, they are going to get it.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's the Abrahamic covenant.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: Now.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_04: But it's really God's.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, really God's, because Abraham had nothing to do with it.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_01: But we call it covenant.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's a one-sided covenant.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, one-sided.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_01: Now the other covenant was the uh Mosaic covenant.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_01: Now what was that covenant?
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's a two-sided tradition.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now that is the one on Yoshita, where it talks about in uh Isaiah 2, I'm not gonna read them, and Jeremiah 30, and Deuteronomy 29, Leviticus 26.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_01: These are all, this is the Mosaic covenant.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this is a covenant that said, Do you want to be my people?
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_01: If you do, you've got to obey the law.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_01: All of the law, all of the people, all the time.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_01: Not just not just with Moses, but even the even the generations and the people and the nation, all right down to today.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_01: And and and they and he said, Do you want to do this?
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_01: Twice.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_06: He gave him a choice.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_01: He gave him a choice, and what did they say?
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, we want to do it.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_01: And but you know what's crazy?
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I think Stephen brings this out.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_01: He kind of bought out it's like God would say, Why do you want it?
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's impossible.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_01: There's no way you can do this.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_01: But they said, Well, we want to do it.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so he listed all these blessings, and he he it talks about it in Leviticus.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh let me see here.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_01: I've got it listed there.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, three through thirteen says all the blessings.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_01: And you can go there and read it.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_01: If you go and read it, it's gonna talk about all this stuff.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_01: If you do it, then this is gonna happen, this is gonna happen, this is good things gonna happen, this is good and good, and it's gonna go, it's gonna be really good.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then, but he says if you don't do it, and what he's saying is if one of you breaks one law, then all the disobedience things come into effect.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's impossible.
• 48:25
  unknown: Right.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_03: You do the thing.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_03: And you think how much your kids must be eight.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, you've got to keep saying, what were they thinking?
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_01: So 14 through 39, which is about double.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's uh the curses are about double the the actual blessings.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: And he says, if you don't do it, then all these things are gonna happen to you.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_01: Guess what's part of that?
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_01: If you go read that, guess what's part of that?
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_01: The age of the Gentiles.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna be kicked out of your land, your your capital's gonna be trampled, you're gonna be persecuted, and it goes on and on and on and on.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_01: Does the Holocaust make sense now?
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_04: Nope.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because people go, well, how does that happen?
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_01: Why did that even happen?
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's that that's just not fair.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, this is part because they broke the covenant.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's all part of it.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_01: And this is why it's a big deal.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_01: This land thing is a big deal.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_01: They're still under it.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: There's still, it's still happening today.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_01: When's it gonna stop?
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_01: Second coming.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_01: When that rock comes down, that uncut stone comes down and hits the ten feet, the whatever it is, the ten and destroys the whole Gentile age, and then it starts a whole new deal.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's when it all starts again, and they're gonna have a kingdom.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_01: Jerusalem's gonna be the capital of the world.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_01: They're not gonna be a cup of trembling anymore.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna be the capital of the world.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's gonna flock.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_01: You can read it in Isaiah.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody once a year will flock to Jerusalem.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_01: And they and it says in Isaiah that they'll be looking for a Jew to hold their cloak to lead them to Jerusalem.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_01: Do you realize?
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_01: Not us.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_01: We'll be uh part of the government.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, come on, this way, this way, this way.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_01: No, can't do that.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we'll be leading and directing guy.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what we'll be doing.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_01: You want part of this one.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be perfect.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_01: So, how do you how do you get out of that impossible?
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_01: This is the last point here.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_01: How do you get out of that impossible uh Mosaic covenant?
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_01: Believing in the one who kept the perfect covenant.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_01: You can't keep it.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_01: You can't keep the law, it's impossible.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_01: Are there Jews today that have now come out from that national covenant?
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_01: Are they free from that national covenant?
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, they are.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_01: Because they've put their faith in Jesus that he has fulfilled that covenant and he's the only one.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_01: So there are Jews today, individually, that they've come out from under that.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_01: Is the church out from under that?
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, we do not have, we're not under the law.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's okay to go watch a football game on Sunday.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's okay.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's okay to open your business.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just I'm maybe treading on uh you are not under the law.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now remember, the whole book of Galatians is all about that.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's all about Judaizers that were coming around to Christians and saying, Yeah, you're saved by grace, but you gotta do this, you gotta do this, you gotta do this, you gotta do this, you gotta do this, you gotta do this.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_01: And you know what law does?
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_01: Kills.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_01: The letter kills, it destroys when not under law.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_01: Do you realize what Christ has done for you when he says you're set free?
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_01: You're set free from the law, you'll come out from underneath it.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_01: Now, here's the question.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_01: This, so that's one way you can get out of it.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_01: Individual Jews can believe in Christ and they can come out from that.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_01: And they're gonna be raptured with the church because they're in the church.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_01: They believe.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_01: This whole tribulation period, this next, when we start next week, this whole seven-year period is all about the nation of Israel to get them to a point where they're gonna realize and recognize as a nation.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna recognize and realize that he is the Messiah.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's uh way down at the India.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_01: Let me see.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: So here, this is a this is a caption here.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_01: Look what it says.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_01: This is Paul writing, for I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own estimation.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_01: He's talking to the Jews in Rome, the Jewish Christians in Rome.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_01: Don't be smart in your own thinking, you Jews.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_01: That a partial hardening, partial, not full, it's not forever, it's only for temporary time.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's that gap.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_01: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
• 54:33
  SPEAKER_01: Right now, God's dealing with the Gentiles.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_01: At the end of that, he's gonna turn back to the Jews.
• 54:40
  SPEAKER_01: And so all Israel, what does it say?
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_01: Will be saved.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_01: All means all, and that's all that all means.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_01: And so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, the deliverer will come from Zion, he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_01: Jacob is Israel, and this is my covenant with them.
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_01: When I take away their sins.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_01: This seven-year period we're about ready to jump into and look at is all focused on who?
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_01: The Jewish nation, the Israelis who are alive today.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: Benjamin Netanyahu.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_01: All the other guys running for office right now.
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_01: That nation over there with all those people and all the Jews that are spread out around the world.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_01: This seven years is all focused on them.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_01: To get them to this point.
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_01: And in Zechariah, it says that they will look and turn and recognize on him whom they pierced.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna know one day that we blew it.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_01: We blew it, we crucified, we crucified him.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_01: And they're gonna see that he is actually the Messiah.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_01: And as a nation, they're gonna believe.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_07: That partial pardon is the Jews that accepted him.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_07: I mean, because hey, he usually with the disciples, the Jews, and Pentecost.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_07: So all hearts wouldn't harden, it was just a partial.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_07: And therefore, over the last 2,000 years there's been Jews that have accepted Christ.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's right.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_01: Very, very minor.
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, this is a national covenant.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_01: That covenant that was made with them is uh with Abraham is a national covenant.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of like, and I think Stephen brought this out, that uh, you know, when you are born in America or you come to America and you're born here, uh we're under the same covenant with constitution that was when they wrote the constitution, they put all of us under that constitution.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_01: We're all under it.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_01: They're the ones that did it.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_01: Those great men.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, but now we all live under that.
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's the same thing with the Jewish nation.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_01: When they s when they agreed on that covenant, it put the whole nation under that covenant, the Mosaic covenant.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_01: So they're all under it.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_01: But it but it gets fixed.
• 57:27
  unknown: Very harsh.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_03: So harsh.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is harsh.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's very harsh.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_01: But uh do you do you remember, do you remember Stephen mentioned about this was a great point he made about uh, you know, and it it you reminded me of it with the sins.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_03: It just seemed so harsh, you know, just so the times changing changing the way they are now, and yeah, you know, the worse it's getting for kids.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_03: Period growing up and the things they struggle with, especially electronics, yeah.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_03: And the things available.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard for them not to be constantly in saying it's sad.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_08: Do you remember what he specifically said that uh you just see the sin being committed right now in this snapshot of time from all people from all over the world.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what you get.
• 58:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_01: Do you mean do you remember him talking about that?
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if if if we could, if we could see all the sin that's occurring in the world right now, and somehow have it displayed some way, it would it what would it do to us?
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_03: We'd be tearing a veil.
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_01: It'd be it'd just make us sick.
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, think about this.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_07: But wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_07: Wait a minute.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_07: He went he went to the cross.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not talking about Alison.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, I don't know.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_07: I mean for all.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_03: Well, the attitude, but there are those who mourn we're supposed to mourn for those ones that are, you know, those type of sins, because they're every couple minutes.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_03: It's terrible.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_01: Think think about how much God has had to watch.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_01: And for how long?
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_01: Well, close to six thousand years now.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_01: That that just could you imagine?
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyway, I so the whole point of this lesson is to get you to realize that this next seven-year period that we're gonna be looking at is all focused on the Jewish nation to change their heart, to to make them realize and see their Messiah.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_01: And it's all about the land, because they're gonna get the land back.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_01: And he's gonna, that's what that scroll is all about.
• 1:00:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_09: Um, so you have the church uh is the pause, right, and God has put uh kind of like a blinder on Israel to allow the Gentiles, Gentiles.
• 1:00:22
  SPEAKER_09: So how about the Jews who, is it because they the ones who died during the pause or before the pause, uh they are they don't make it because they rejected uh Christ when he was on the earth.
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_09: But I kind of got the impression reading the appearance week that um Christ, it was already planned out that Christ wouldn't be received when he came to go out to the church that the the age of the Gentiles who came out.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_09: Sometimes I want to think I I'm wondering do if the Jews are the ones who are make it to the kingdom, did they get a second chance?
• 1:01:05
  SPEAKER_09: Oh no.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_01: I just I I think I think uh I think that promises, all those promises of curses and blessings go all through have gone through the nation all that time.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_01: But it it's gonna be that last generation.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be that last generation that's alive, that repents.
• 1:01:31
  SPEAKER_01: And and by the way, they they've all had a chance to believe in Jesus.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_01: They've all had a chance to to see and and to believe and to accept that they can pick up a New Testament just like you and I can.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Jesus told the disciples that they had the Moses and the prophets, and they didn't believe.
• 1:01:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_01: So that's uh that's a that you're getting into a lot of foreknowledge and predestination and all that, and I don't want to go there.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but it's it's a God has a plan and he has a purpose, and He is and He is just.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_01: So even though we may look at it and go, man, that doesn't seem fair.
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_01: We we have we're just humans and He is God, and we just need to make sure we got it we're in the right perspective.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_05: What do we do in the meantime?
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_01: What do we do in the meantime?
• 1:02:25
  SPEAKER_01: We we recruit citizens.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_01: So what do you do?
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_01: Any other questions?
• 1:02:37
  SPEAKER_01: So next week is it.
• 1:02:39
  SPEAKER_05: We we're starting to this this is the hinge point.
• 1:02:42
  SPEAKER_05: If you don't understand this real well, then you miss the whole rest of the book.
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:02:47
  SPEAKER_05: You have to understand this.
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  SPEAKER_05: If you don't, you need to go back and listen again.
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  SPEAKER_02: When you said something about the second part, he comes down in the land, he puts his feet on the land.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: That made me think about the story of Ruth and how that they exchanged sandals, and I didn't understand that as far as a property transaction, and that was that, you know, they would where you would put your foot was what was to belong to you.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so in a property transaction, sometimes they would exchange sandals and put their sandal down, and that indicated okay, now this is your property.
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  SPEAKER_02: When you're talking about he comes and stands.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he stands, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, think of that old story about rigging, by the way, as into their property.
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  SPEAKER_02: I hadn't really thought of it like that before.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's great.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I have to say, too, he's still at work in the Jewish people because we're at a wonderful church in Friends with Texas called Sage Not Baptist.
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  SPEAKER_02: And one of their pastors is a Messian Jew.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the way he came to Christ was in the army.
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  SPEAKER_02: For some reason, he was in his bunk house with nobody else in there, and the Holy Spirit just took the scales from his eyes, and all of a sudden he realized I've made a mistake, and I now understand, and he fell to his knees.
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  SPEAKER_02: No one spoke to him, no one had been talking to him, it was just the Holy Spirit moved, and then he used him, and he's now a wonderful caster at Sage Montbaptist.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's still at work.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's still at work.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we can teach the word.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I came to the United States, I uh came on a swimming scholarship and I went to the University of Iowa and I stayed to save money so we could distribute, get more swimmers.
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  SPEAKER_01: We we I stayed with a family off campus, and it was a Jewish family.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was an unbeliever.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was so neat.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I became a believer uh, you know, later on, seven months later, and completely changed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I would, you know, talk to them, and they said, Well, you've really changed.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they go, Well, it must be and that's when I met my wife at the same time, and they go, it must be you met Kara.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's that's why you changed.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's uh it isn't that interesting.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was neat.
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  SPEAKER_01: I went to I went to the temple and or synagogue, and they would do the Friday thing every night.
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  SPEAKER_01: They weren't they weren't real committed Jews, but just like most of them are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do we still have the little bitty Jewish people here on Park Avenue?
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've driven up there and looked at it.
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  SPEAKER_02: My my neighbor across the street when I was in teenage, when I was a teenager, she was taking classes there, and I would go with her sometimes to her classes just out of curiosity.
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  SPEAKER_02: I wondered if it was still there.
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  SPEAKER_02: His daughter, the rabbi at that time, was in the tenth grade with me at Southside in math class.
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  SPEAKER_02: Her name was Miriam.
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  SPEAKER_05: Miriam.
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  SPEAKER_02: And she told me in math class one day that she prayed every day that she would be the mother of the Messiah.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'll never forget.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let me pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Father, we thank you again for tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I know uh there's a lot of information and a lot of things swirling around in our heads, and we just thank you that you can bring clarity.
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  SPEAKER_01: And even if there's questions, Lord, may we just bring them to you and uh and you just help us to understand.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why you gave us the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why you gave us your word, and you gave us each other to minister to and to help.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we just thank you for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go before us this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Help us to just talk to people and to recruit citizens for the kingdom that's coming.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we thank you again in Christ's name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.